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Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) person Anbumani Ramadoss connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) urged the Union authorities to instrumentality expeditious steps to question the revocation of the Supreme Court’s stay connected the implementation of the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity successful Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026.
In a statement, helium expressed interest implicit the Supreme Court’s bid connected Thursday, which kept the precocious notified UGC regulations successful abeyance. He said the regulations had been framed by the Centre with the nonsubjective of upholding societal justness by putting an extremity to caste-based favoritism successful higher acquisition institutions.
He said the regulations mandated each higher acquisition institutions to represent “equity committees” to look into complaints of discrimination. These committees would see representatives from Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes to inquire into specified complaints and were not directed against immoderate peculiar community, helium said.
Contending that the UGC regulations were the request of the hour, helium urged the Centre to instrumentality swift steps to revoke the stay.
